Overview
Inversion Capital buys traditional, low-margin businesses and uses blockchain infrastructure to modernize operations, building its own Inversion Chain on Avalanche to run on-chain processes for payments, data sharing, and record-keeping for millions of customers. It replaces legacy systems with blockchain-based solutions and deploys a Layer 1 chain on Avalanche, integrating crypto engineering into portfolio companies while keeping the end-user experience largely the same. Unlike traditional private equity, it uses a bespoke on-chain platform and its own Layer 1 to tailor solutions, targeting large customer-base, thin-margin operators to move core operations on-chain without visible changes to users. Its goal is to create a crypto-native private equity model that boosts profitability of legacy businesses through digital infrastructure and asset tokenization, bringing millions of existing customers onto its on-chain ecosystem.
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Simplify's take
What believers are saying
- Dragonfly led Inversion's $26.5 million seed at a $100 million valuation in September 2025.
- Inversion Labs' 2026 payment-cost calculator quantifies savings from stablecoin settlement and churn reduction.
- Santos's 2026 interviews on The Block and the un# podcast keep recruiting founders.
What critics are saying
- Without closed acquisitions, Inversion becomes a thesis deck, not an employer.
- SEC, FinCEN, and state money-transmission rules threaten Inversion Chain's stablecoin payments stack.
- The firm conceded in 2026 that MVNOs, remittances, and onchain lending failed thesis tests.
What makes Inversion Capital unique
- Santiago Roel Santos founded Inversion in 2024 to buy businesses, not tokens.
- Inversion Chain on Avalanche customizes settlement, identity, and permissions for portfolio companies.
- The model hides crypto from customers, replacing legacy back offices with invisible rails.
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